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It would be expensive -- you'd have to "rebalance" the data by copying it to the new volume / away from the old volume, which would take hours or days.
by cbhl 9y ago
It would be expensive -- you'd have to "rebalance" the data by copying it to the new volume / away from the old volume, which would take hours or days.
- rocqua 9y agoPeople who want this feature are mostly frugal. They want it so they can upgrade by just buying a single new disk. That is a rare enough use case that the performance penalty would be worth it.
- cbhl 9y agoFrugal enough to shut off their computer when they're not using it (to "save power"), so the rebalancing won't have time to complete in the background?
- kalleboo 9y agoIsn't the fact that Drobo is still around and doing well a testament to people being fine with this tradeoff?